Zechariah:7

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* It happened in the fourth year of king Darius that the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month , the month of Chislev . * The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech , and their men , to entreat Yahweh 's favor , * and to speak to the priests of the house of Yahweh of Armies , and to the prophets , saying , "Should I weep in the fifth month , separating myself , as I have done these so many years ?" * Then the word of Yahweh of Armies came to me , saying , * "Speak to all the people of the land , and to the priests , saying , 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years , did you at all fast to me , really to me ? * When you eat , and when you drink , don 't you eat for yourselves , and drink for yourselves ? * Aren 't these the words which Yahweh proclaimed by the former prophets , when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity , and its cities around her , and the South and the lowland were inhabited ?'" * The word of Yahweh came to Zechariah , saying , * "Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken , saying , 'Execute true judgment , and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother . * Don 't oppress the widow , nor the fatherless , the foreigner , nor the poor ; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart .' * But they refused to listen , and turned their backs , and stopped their ears , that they might not hear . * Yes , they made their hearts as hard as flint , lest they might hear the law , and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets . Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Armies . * It has come to pass that , as he called , and they refused to listen , so they will call , and I will not listen ," said Yahweh of Armies ; * "but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known . Thus the land was desolate after them , so that no man passed through nor returned : for they made the pleasant land desolate ."

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